Improved animal-trap



i @initd ,sM/IUE'L AYEES, or WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

Leners Patent No. s5,7s0,'1uefzV Janna/ry '12, 1869.- I

IMERVED ANIMAL-TRAP.

Th Schedule referred to in these Letters Pntent and making part: .of the saine.

' improvement.

Figure 2 is a side view of the same, with the ends open as when set.

My invention relates to the locking o r fastening the doors when closed, so that the enclosed animal cannot push its way out.

.Itconsists in forming a locking-bar` adapted to slide or swing on the doors in such away that it shall fall into `place on the'springing or shuttingof thel trap,

and be easily `removed to take out the animal or reset it, but shalleffectually lock it when in place.

My invention may be applied to most any of the common forms and construction of traps, the A`rod A (see drawings) being arranged to slide on the wi es C 0 on each door, so that; whennear the top, as i iig. 2, the doors may be opened and the trap set, and, when the doors close, lit falls into position shown in fig. 1,

"locking both.

What I claim as new, and desire `13o-secure by Letters Patent, is-` The application of the locking-rod A, in combination with the wires C C on the doors, or their equivaf lents, when constructed and operating substantially as set forth and described.

Witnesses: SAMUEL AYRES.

A. E. AGKLEY, J mms G. ARNOLD. 

